Improvement in sliding-door pulls



UNITED STATES PATENT OEENJEC HENRY H. ELWELL, OF NORWALK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR vTO THE NORWALK LOCK COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLlDING-DOOR PULLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,357, dated November 23, 1875; application iled October 26, 1.875.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. ELWELL, of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Sliding-Door Pull; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters'of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specilication, and represent a sectional side view, with th covering plate removed.

This invention relates to an improvement in device forclosing sliding doorsthat is to say, a device which may be arranged in the edge of the door, so that when the door is thrown into the wall, flush, the device for drawing out the' door may be easily reached, and yet flush with the face-place at all other times 5 and the invention consists in a slide, working lworking through the face-plate, combined with a spring which will automatically draw the slide and hold it within the case, but so that, with the linger applied to the slide outside the `face-plate, it may be drawn out and serve as this slide is a perforation, E, or other device,

cated, to draw out the slide. Another finger of the same hand, then inserted through vthe perforation E, enables the person to close the door, but so soon as the ng'er be disengaged from the slide the spring at once returns the slide into the case. This slide may be arranged either in the lock proper, or in the keeper, or may be used in a case independent of either, for the purpose of a door-pull.

In combination with the face-plate and case, the slide C, working through said face-plate, with suitable guides to control its movement, and a spring to return or hold the said slide Within the case, substantially as specified.

HENRY H. ELWELL.

Witnesses:

DUDLEY P. ELY, Clins. E. FERRIs. 

